summer school

noun, esp. N. Amer., a course of remedial or accelerated classes held in the summer (COD); all quotes refer specifically to a teacher education program; see also normal school

“He was my first school teacher. He just come out of summer school.”

“I went to what they call summer school in Toronto for six weeks.”

“Tom wasn’t even a teacher then. He worked summer school after that.”

“I went to Kingston College for summer school one year.”

“I had a grade two class, which it couldn’t have been any easier really. I wasn’t eighteen yet! Seventeen. What a thing to start off. I didn’t know anything. So I got through that year and then went back to summer school again for six weeks. Then I came to the Island and taught another year.”

“When did you go to normal school?”
“Right out of grade twelve. Mother St. G., she put a form on our desk, and she said, ‘Fill it out: you’re going to summer school!’… So we filled it out, about four or five of us, and we all went to summer school then, and then we taught. We taught that year, and then we had to go back to summer school the next year.”